TREATIES, ality and narrow minded. ness is passing over Japan just now—one of those periodical outbursts to which the country is prone and which she seems too little to live down. It finds an outlet in various ways in mysterious rumours of pending activity on the part of the Cabinet in connection with 'Treaty Revision,—a feature of which activ is to be resolute' insistance upon str ance to the terms of the Treaties now in force, in the trumping-up of and more Jess hollow charges ayainst foreigners unfortunate enough to have been thrown across the path of any Japanese in any way, in refusal to rant passports and in orders to parties who fave hitherto lived in peace outside Settle. ment limits to pack themselves off, bag and baggage, to the foreign Settlement. This array of charges, I doubt not, will be discredited by the a re resident in China, for the Chinese though to a fault, appear to be above such paltry, spiteful mean: nesses the Japanese from time to time give way to; but the charges, one and all, are capable of being substantiated and amplified.
'THE SPIKIT OF THE JAPANESE, in a word. is "if you won't play with me my way, Til take away my bat." They forget that in inconveniencing and thwarting foreigners they are in reality spiting themselves. They seem to be hent on giving the world evidence that they are not only ation of children but a parcel of spoilt children. 'They will be fortunate if they do not been their fingers. It has been my' fortune to listen word for word to the majority of cases lately brought against foreigners, and, save in one case where the Japanese attorn: a nice-looking young fellow of reserved ways, was manifestly unable to grasp the A.B.C. of the situation, notwithstanding the Consul and Judge's praiseworthy display of patience, I confess I have been compelled to sympathise with-the accused in every case. So much so that upon leaving Court on the last occasion Dut one, I cast about for an explanation of Japanese officials to rush near the light and the strange, disposition just now shown well, if such is her deliberate intention, and seems that such is, the case—let her be made to observe her own side of the compact strictly. Take the case of J. Clifford Wilkin. son (a British subject) and one Danw (a German), employes of the Nippon Serinai Kaisha, Rice Mill at Hiogo. These men, the former at least, have been allowed to live 1 im peace and quietness at Hiogo, a mile say from Kobe Concession, for several years. Their resi ence at Hiogo has been dictated interests, in order that they might be close at hand. Now, without any other reason than that, capable of explanation suddenly and with scarcely any warning or. on the ground of spite and eaprise, they are dered by the Police to vacate their homes [and remove at once to the Settlement, and this be it noted in connection with port which as late as last year was formal. ly and with much ado opened to foreign trade. Have the Foreign Ministers 1io right toseck an explanation of the government's meaning in declaring the port "of Hiogo open by special Ordinance? It is a pretty com. mentary on the grand festivities in which foreigners were invited to participate on the Ist of October, 1892, to celebrate the opening of Hiogo THE JAPANESE PRESS AND THE " RAVENNA"~
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